Highlighting in FoodChain-Lab
Tasks
- Open the following workflow: https://github.com/SiLeBAT/BfROpenLa….
- Change the color of Outbreak stations in the Tracing View from red to turquoise.
- Add the label “node” to each station.
Step 1

Step 2
- Here you can see a small delivery graph with three outbreak locations (red stations) in the lower part.

Step 3
- Let’s now change the color of the outbreak stations.
- Right click in the graph and select Station Highlighting > Edit.

Step 4
- A dialog with all defined highlighting conditions will pop up.
- Double click on the Outbreak condition to edit it.

Step 5
- A new dialog for editing the outbreak condition will pop up.
- In this dialog you can also change what stations the highlighting should be applied to.
- Currently it is applied on all station with “Weight” > 0. You can add other expressions by pressing the Add button on the right. These expressions can be combined via “And” or “Or”.
- To edit the color click red square next to Color.

Step 6
- In the color chooser dialog select turquoise and press OK.

Step 7
- The square next to Color should be turquoise now.
- Press OK.

Step 8
- In the dialog showing all highlighting conditions press OK to apply your changes.

Step 9
- The outbreak stations in the delivery graph should now be turquoise.

Step 10
- Now we want to add labels to all stations in the graph.
- Right click in the graph and select Station Highlighting > Edit.

Step 11
- We add the labeling as a new highlight condition.
- Press Add to add a new condition.

Step 12
- Add dialog will show up where you can configure the desired highlight condition.

Step 13
- Since we want to use labels for all stations, select the Type “Apply To All”.

Step 14
- Set the Name to “Labeling” (just for documentation).
- Uncheck Use Color, since we just want to create labels without coloring.
- Set the Label to “node”, since that is the column with station names.
- Press OK to create the highlight condition.

Step 15
- In the dialog with all highlight conditions you should now see a new condition “Labeling”.
- Press OK to apply the changes.

Step 16
- In the delivery graph there is now a label next to each station.

Step 17
- FoodChain-Lab also allows to color or label deliveries the same way.
- To open the dialog for editing delivery highlight conditions right click in the graph, select Delivery Highlighting > Edit and proceed in the same way as you have just done with the stations.
